David Becker, WireImage.com / Getty Images Pavement's final U.S. show and almost-final gig of their reunion -- they play a festival in Buenos Aires on November 19 -- wasn't a big hit with Twitter critics. "There seem to be a few people in this room happy this is the last show of the Pavement tour," tweeted Stereogum's Amrit Singh during the ...

There are more than 60 artists on Matador Records' 'Matador at 21' six-CD retrospective. There are 26 playing the New York indie label's birthday concerts in Las Vegas Oct. 1 through 3. When you've put out nearly a thousand records, not every band can make the cut. Every longtime Matador fan can name at least one artist that they wish ...

Chuck Prophet was already serving up a smoking take on Alex Chilton's grimy, hiccuped 1978 single 'Bangkok' on the road last winter. Now he plays the Memphis legend's "painless lesson in geography" (as Prophet called it Friday night at Portland's Mississippi Studios) in memoriam, five months after Chilton's death. "I'm still kind of numb about ...

Is Montana on the way to Bonnaroo from Oregon? Not exactly, but no market is too seemingly small for Portland six-piece Blitzen Trapper. The band kicked off its tour in Spokane, Wash., on Wednesday, then played Missoula, Mont., Thursday, selling out the Palace, a steamy, subterranean former hotel parking garage with a stage so low that some people ...

While Pavement's Stephen Malkmus glibly complained onstage about the fact that they had to fly straight from the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona to the Sasquatch! Festival in George, Wa., over Memorial Day Weekend, they were only one of many bands who made that journey. "Pavement took the Concorde, that's what I heard," Dr. Dog bassist ...

When Freelance Whales and Cymbals Eat Guitars were out on tour together this past spring, they looked ahead to Sasquatch!, realizing that they would share a bill with Pavement -- and therefore finally have a chance to see them. "The lead guitarist and singer of Cymbals, Joe [D'Agostino], is a really big Pavement fanatic," Freelance Whales' ...

Minutes before MGMT took the stage on Monday, the last night of the Sasquatch! music festival in Washington, one concertgoer said, "This is either gonna be the high point or the low point. That new album sucks." This would seem to be the story of 'Congratulations' for a lot of fans, but if MGMT's second album was partly about resisting the first ...